‘Cool Machine’: The last book in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy is classic New York fiction
Scroll.inby Douglas Field, The Conversation·21 Aug 2026
Cool Machine is the last book in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy. Across three decades, the series has followed the furniture dealer and family man Ray Carney as he navigates the changing...
India dismisses US panel’s call for sanctions against RSS as ‘biased’
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday dismissed a United States religious freedom panel’s call for sanctions against members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, describing the organisation as...
Lucknow’s gleaming Gomti riverfront symbolises urban progress, but what about ecological resilience?
Scroll.inby Amita Bhaduri·21 Aug 2026
At first glance, the Gomti Riverfront appears to be a triumph of urban transformation. Gleaming promenades, landscaped gardens, cycling tracks, and illuminated riverbanks have recast the Gomti as a...
Rush Hour: Rahul Gandhi’s sit-in for pellet-injured youth, CJP team attacked at Jaipur school & more
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi staged a sit-in protest outside the Delhi deputy commissioner of police’s office demanding that a first information report be registered on a complaint by a student...
Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan taken back to jail after brief hospital visit
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Friday shifted back to prison after a brief visit to an Islamabad hospital, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said.
Fiction by Nobel laureate Louise Glück: A novella about twin sisters’ first year in the world
Scroll.inby Louise Glück·21 Aug 2026
Marigold was dreaming the dream she dreamed. She was a single baby; Rose was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps she had decided not to be born. Beautiful Rose, lovable Rose.
Samajwadi Party workers allege assault by senior police officer in Meerut
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
Samajwadi Party workers have alleged that they were assaulted by Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police Avinash Pandey on Wednesday.
Rahul Gandhi protests at DCP office after police allegedly refuse FIR for pellet-injured student
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday held a sit-in protest outside the Delhi deputy commissioner of police’s office demanding that a first information report be registered on a complaint by a...
Cockroach Janta Party team assaulted at Jaipur school, alleges BJP sent goons
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
The Cockroach Janta Party on Friday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party sent “goons” to assault its team that had gone to inspect a government school in Rampura Kanwarpura village of Jaipur’s...
Amish’s new book is children’s fiction : Rivals Dhruv and Tara represent their school in a quiz
Scroll.inby Amish·21 Aug 2026
The students are all in the room, but the class teacher, Mr Lobo, is yet to come. Some of the students are desperately finishing their pending homework, some are staring at the walls, lost in...
Review: In ‘Pyaar Prema Kalyanam’, a halfway modern challenge to traditional family values
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·21 Aug 2026
Love is now progressive but have men kept pace, social media influencer Pavi asks her followers. The Netflix release Pyaar Prema Kalyanam has other rhetorical questions in store for viewers, such...
Tamil Nadu seeks Centre’s assurance on maintaining parliamentary seats proportion after delimitation
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay on Thursday asked the Union government to provide a legislative assurance that any state’s representation in Parliament will not reduce due to the...
‘Can English be considered non-native?’ asks SC in challenge to CBSE’s three-language policy
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it would have to examine whether English can be classified as a “non-indigenous” language under the Central Board of Secondary Education’s three-language...
BJP MLA alleges she faced caste discrimination at Uttar Pradesh temple event
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
The Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Uttar Pradesh’s Malihabad has alleged that she was discriminated against based on her caste at a land-worship ritual before the renovation of a temple in Kakori...
Two Khalistan supporters warned by Canadian Police about threats to life
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
The Canadian police have sent letters warning at least two Sikh persons in the country of threats to their lives because of their advocacy for Khalistan, The Canadian Press reported on Tuesday.
BJP’s unpopularity might be growing – but destruction of Opposition gives it breathing space
Scroll.inby Shoaib Daniyal·21 Aug 2026
Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. A newsletter on Indian politics. As always, if you’ve been sent this newsletter and like it, to get it in your inbox every week, sign up here (click on...
Casteist slurs made in private not offence under SC/ST Act, says Supreme Court
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21 Aug 2026
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that uttering casteist slurs in private does not meet the statutory requirement of being considered an offence under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes...
‘7 Dogs’ review: Barking-mad action propels a routine plot
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·21 Aug 2026
Right from its opening sequence, in which a camera travels through a hole in a plane’s windshield and then through a pilot’s head into a cabin where an agent is wrestling with a criminal, 7 Dogs...
‘Dalit women need to be allowed to speak for themselves’: Writer Kalyani Thakur Charal
Scroll.inby Kalyani Thakur Charal·21 Aug 2026
Within the larger category of Dalit writing, where can we situate Dalit women’s writing? Dalit girls, tribal girls, and girls from the minority sections of society are educationally and...
‘1942: A Love Story’ review: A treat for the eye and the ear
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·21 Aug 2026
Before Vidhu Vinod Chopra tried to become a jack-of-all filmmaker trying his hand at different genres, he made one type of film brilliantly: the crime drama.
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